Dover Thrift Editions
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
$6.00 Add to cartReferring to Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, H. L. Mencken noted that his discovery of this classic American novel was “the most stupendous event of my whole life”; Ernest Hemingway declared that “al
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Twain, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 26, 1994
- ISBN10: 0486280616
- Language: English
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Crime and Punishment
$9.00 Add to cartThe two years before he wrote Crime and Punishment (1866) had been bad ones for Dostoyevsky. His wife and brother had died; the magazine he and his brother had started, Epoch, collapsed under its load
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- Author: Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: August 22, 2001
- ISBN10: 0486415872
- Language: English
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The Imitation of Christ
$5.00 Add to cartThis classic of Christian devotional literature has brought understanding and comfort to millions for centuries. Both Protestants and Catholics — as well as mystics and historians of religious though… [more below]
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Thomas ? Kempis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 139
- Publish Date: September 18 2003
- ISBN10: 0486431851
- Language: English
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
$6.00 Add to cartThe true story of an individual’s struggle for self-identity, self-preservation, and freedom, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl remains among the few extant slave narratives written by a woman. Th
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- Author: Jacobs, Harriet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: November 09 2001
- ISBN10: 0486419312
- Language: English
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Heart of Darkness
$5.00 Add to cartAlthough Polish by birth, Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) is regarded as one of the greatest writers in English, and Heart of Darkness, first published in 1902, is considered by many his “most famous, fine
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- Author: Conrad, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: July 01 1990
- ISBN10: 0486264645
- Language: English
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The Souls of Black Folk (Dover Thrift Editions)
$7.00 Add to cartThis landmark book is a founding work in the literature of black protest. W. E. B. Du Bois (1868-1963) played a key role in developing the strategy and program that dominated early 20th-century black … [more below]
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- Author: Du Bois, W. E. B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: May 20 1994
- ISBN10: 0486280411
- Language: English
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
$4.50 Add to cartFormer slave, impassioned abolitionist, brilliant writer, newspaper editor and eloquent orator whose speeches fired the abolitionist cause, Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) led an astounding life. Physi
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- Author: Douglass, Frederick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: April 13, 1995
- ISBN10: 0486284999
- Language: English
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Great Speeches of the Twentieth Century
$9.00 Add to cartA great speech can stir the soul — and move a nation. This compact and affordable anthology gathers complete speeches and selected excerpts from some of the twentieth century’s most memorable address
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- Author: Blaisdell, Bob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 17, 2011
- ISBN10: 0486474674
- Language: English
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
$5.00 Add to cartWhether forming a pirate gang to search for buried treasure or spending a quiet time at home, sharing his medicine with Aunt Polly’s cat, the irrepressible Tom Sawyer evokes the world of boyhood in ni… [more below]
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- Author: Twain, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 27 1998
- ISBN10: 0486400778
- Language: English
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
$6.00 Add to cartIn this celebrated work, his only novel, Wilde forged a devastating portrait of the effects of evil and debauchery on a young aesthete in late-19th-century England. Combining elements of the Gothic ho
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- Author: Wilde, Oscar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 13 1993
- ISBN10: 0486278077
- Language: English
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Up from Slavery
$6.00 Add to cartBorn in a Virginia slave hut, Booker T. Washington (1856-1915) rose to become the most influential spokesman for African Americans of his day. In this eloquently written book, he describes events in a
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- Author: Washington, Booker T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 04, 1995
- ISBN10: 0486287386
- Language: English
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A Tale of Two Cities
$7.00 Add to cartIt was the time of the French Revolution — a time of great change and great danger. It was a time when injustice was met by a lust for vengeance, and rarely was a distinction made between the innocen
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- Author: Dickens, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: December 31, 1998
- ISBN10: 0486406512
- Language: English
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The Theban Plays: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus and Antigone
$8.00 Read moreThe stirring tale of a legendary royal family’s fall and ultimate redemption, the Theban trilogy endures as the crowning achievement of Greek drama. Sophocles’ three-play cycle, chronicling Oedipus’s … [more below]
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- Author: Sophocles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: June 23 2006
- ISBN10: 048645049X
- Language: English
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The Scarlet Letter
$6.00 Add to cartAn “A” for “adultery” marks Hester Prynne as an outcast from the society of colonial Boston. Although forced by the puritanical town fathers to wear a bright red badge of shame, Hester steadfastly res
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- Author: Hawthorne, Nathaniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 02, 1994
- ISBN10: 0486280489
- Language: English
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100 Best-Loved Poems
$5.00 Add to cartHere are some of the most-loved poems in the English language, chosen not merely for their popularity, but for their literary quality as well. Dating from the Middle Ages to the 20th century, these sp
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Smith, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: October 04 1995
- ISBN10: 0486285537
- Language: English
